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Yeah that sketch was from December 1991. Biff has evolved a lot since then. I think the gag works without the blood. I guess I set a precedent in some earlier comics where he’s decapitated or cut in half and there’s no blood so I’m sticking with that for now.
I fear going to one of my grandparents cuz they have low ceilings. Nothing is more scary then being 6 foot tall, with mid back length hair, and having a ceiling fan on high just 2 inches above your head. *shudders*
heh, one time, I was helping my uncle remodle his store, and I was climbing up onto the personal lift. When I started standing up, my hat got knocked off and I just climbed right back down to get it. That’s when I noticed the ceiling fan directly above the ladder. And it was set on high. Lucky I had the hat on, or it would have been my hair…
For some reason this makes me think of a bug in an old Infocom game, Starcross, where if you were to try to throw your hands in the air, they’d go sailing off to the horizon.
That’s why when I yawn, I stretch my arms out, not up. It seems a lot safer to imitate a crucifixion than to have your hands pummelled by a high speed ceiling fan.
I’ve noticed that ceiling fans are either really low or really high up. the ceiling fan here in my room is so high i have to stand on my bed to reach it to change the settings. and I’m 6′2″. and also when i was little at my grandma’s, me and my cousin would get tomatoes, apples, potatoes and stuff and throw em up in the ceiling fan. there are still stains on the ceilings. we also did similar stuff on her exercise bike. if you get the wheel spinning fast enuf it can mash potatoes quite nicely.
Ceiling Salad!!!
I have an 8 foot high ceiling, 3.5 foot tall bed, (it’s got drawers below it) and a ceiling fan about half a foot to the left of my bed. Need I say more.
My father and I are both tall enough that any stretching will put us right into the fan. It really hurts when you are taking a shirt off and it gets caught on a blade and thrown right back into your face.
ghost busterd did a show on that. they tried to cut someone’s head off with a ceiling fan made out of a lawn mower. it didn’t work, but it looked soooo coool
I have a ceiling fan right beside my bed, which is a bunk bed, and I sleep on the top bunk.
Sometimes I stick my hands or head in to the spinning blades,
On purpose, because it feels cool.
I was on my top bunk once, dangling my legs off the side, and my foot ran into the fan. I had a fan with thin metal blades. Took a great chunk out of the side of my toe. Not too much later, my fan was changed out for one with nice thick wooden blades.
Though, when I was really little, I would go to my friend’s house, and we’d put all his toy cars on top of the fan (how we got to it is beyond me), and then we’d turn the fan on and hide under his conforter so the cars wouldn’t hurt us and let them fly all over the room… Was so much fun! We got in trouble, but we did it a lot
And I always have to be careful changing in my room with the fan on. Tall, small crowded room with fan right in the middle….
I actually was staying at a friend’s house last week and was putting on a shirt and got my knuckle caught in her ceiling fan (6′5″ btw), needless to say, there was much blood… and now that I know of Biff, I’m sure he’d have been proud. …Even more so when I did it to the same hand later that night.
Y’know, you’d be surprised by how many times it happened to me.Well, except the hand amputation part. Still, I’m a 6′4 ft tall guy. It happens to me once a week, really.
Glad I could make ya smile AJ :3
Ok, my room is the worst ventillated one in the house (Seriously, who the hell designed it? The vent is literally 2 feet away from an opposing wall- the air has no room to move in! -_-; ) so I have to keep my ceiling fan whirring along like a little hummingbird. Well, I’m a tall man… x_x; and my ceiling is… I’m not sure, the living room ceiling is 8 feet, and the other ceilings are a little lower… Lets say my room’s ceiling (lets be generous) 6.5 feet? And I’m between 5.8 and 5.11 (we havent measured for a few years), with long arms… yeah… x_x I’ve thwacked my arms a few times…
November 2nd, 2006 at 4:42 pm
the originol sketch looks different.. .where did the blood go, and the face expression?
November 2nd, 2006 at 4:59 pm
Yeah that sketch was from December 1991. Biff has evolved a lot since then. I think the gag works without the blood. I guess I set a precedent in some earlier comics where he’s decapitated or cut in half and there’s no blood so I’m sticking with that for now.
January 4th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
I actually managed to break a lamp above me while doing that, it shattered and fell all over me, you don’t want to know the bloody details
January 12th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
hehe it looks like his hands are floating and are about to smack him in the head. Guess I would too if he chopped me off like that….
January 13th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Ouch. That has got to sting.
January 13th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
That might be me, soon. My new apartment has a ceiling fan, and I can almost put my PALMS on the ceiling without going onto my tip-toes.
January 17th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
I fear going to one of my grandparents cuz they have low ceilings. Nothing is more scary then being 6 foot tall, with mid back length hair, and having a ceiling fan on high just 2 inches above your head. *shudders*
January 22nd, 2007 at 11:58 pm
I have actually done that, It actually hurts, no blood but the fan does not work well anymore.
January 24th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
This is so true. I’m 6′ and when I stretch my hands like that…. yeah I understand this comic so well.
February 3rd, 2007 at 10:41 pm
I knocked out a light fixture doing that once. It wasn’t me that got hurt tho…
February 16th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
I think Biff just needs to move out of that house. He has way to many problems with the low ceiling.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
heh, one time, I was helping my uncle remodle his store, and I was climbing up onto the personal lift. When I started standing up, my hat got knocked off and I just climbed right back down to get it. That’s when I noticed the ceiling fan directly above the ladder. And it was set on high. Lucky I had the hat on, or it would have been my hair…
February 26th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
This used to happen to me in the Summer a lot at my friend’s house. Well … my hands never came clean off, but other than that, dead on.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:52 pm
This actually happens to me quite often. You know, minus the losing my hands part.
April 7th, 2007 at 7:29 am
Ouch….
Here in Australia it’s a requirement to have ’safety fans’. They’re really not much less painful than the old ones.
April 10th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
So what’s the point of safety fans if they hurt as much.
April 23rd, 2007 at 8:09 am
Wow, when i was little i always thought that would happen to me if i stuck my hand to close too the fan. it scared me.
April 29th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
IF your happy and ya know it clap your…stubs?
May 13th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
I’ve done that so often…
It doesn’t have to be a low ceiling if you’re tall. >.
May 16th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
For some reason this makes me think of a bug in an old Infocom game, Starcross, where if you were to try to throw your hands in the air, they’d go sailing off to the horizon.
May 16th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Malachite, that comment put a big smile on my face! XD
May 18th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
That’s why when I yawn, I stretch my arms out, not up. It seems a lot safer to imitate a crucifixion than to have your hands pummelled by a high speed ceiling fan.
May 24th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Curse you all, tall people!!! I can’t touch the ceiling even standing on my bed. =/
May 28th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
I’ve noticed that ceiling fans are either really low or really high up. the ceiling fan here in my room is so high i have to stand on my bed to reach it to change the settings. and I’m 6′2″. and also when i was little at my grandma’s, me and my cousin would get tomatoes, apples, potatoes and stuff and throw em up in the ceiling fan. there are still stains on the ceilings. we also did similar stuff on her exercise bike. if you get the wheel spinning fast enuf it can mash potatoes quite nicely.
June 1st, 2007 at 1:39 am
Ceiling Salad!!!
I have an 8 foot high ceiling, 3.5 foot tall bed, (it’s got drawers below it) and a ceiling fan about half a foot to the left of my bed. Need I say more.
June 13th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
JAZZ HANDS!
June 19th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Didn’t he get rid of that thing after the eyebrows incident?
June 22nd, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Oh my God! I have that fear every time my fan is on! (Not so much since I moved into this house, but the house before this one had lower ceilings.)
June 29th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
My father and I are both tall enough that any stretching will put us right into the fan. It really hurts when you are taking a shirt off and it gets caught on a blade and thrown right back into your face.
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:20 pm
i did a yawn-stretch once while sitting in a chair…i leaned backwards and “bla-bla-bla!!!” …my knuckles hurt for quite some time…
October 4th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
ghost busterd did a show on that. they tried to cut someone’s head off with a ceiling fan made out of a lawn mower. it didn’t work, but it looked soooo coool
October 30th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
I have a ceiling fan right beside my bed, which is a bunk bed, and I sleep on the top bunk.
Sometimes I stick my hands or head in to the spinning blades,
On purpose, because it feels cool.
November 13th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
silent, I think you mean “myth busters” Ghost busters is something entirely different…
there was a girl who went to my old school that had no arms past her elbows, and no legs….
she had better handwriting than me…
November 19th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
:p I have no problem with that. Even if the ceiling is low, I still don’t reach it. Tis one of the few blessings of being short.
December 1st, 2007 at 11:56 am
I was on my top bunk once, dangling my legs off the side, and my foot ran into the fan. I had a fan with thin metal blades. Took a great chunk out of the side of my toe. Not too much later, my fan was changed out for one with nice thick wooden blades.
Though, when I was really little, I would go to my friend’s house, and we’d put all his toy cars on top of the fan (how we got to it is beyond me), and then we’d turn the fan on and hide under his conforter so the cars wouldn’t hurt us and let them fly all over the room… Was so much fun! We got in trouble, but we did it a lot
And I always have to be careful changing in my room with the fan on. Tall, small crowded room with fan right in the middle….
December 23rd, 2007 at 7:53 pm
What’s this about originals?
This isn’t the original version?!
December 23rd, 2007 at 7:53 pm
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!
There’s a ceiling fan ad here at the bottom!
January 18th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
*has an image of Biff caught in the ceiling fan, being spun around by his eyebrows* ow ow ow…
March 1st, 2008 at 5:33 pm
woo! lets hear it for the tall people!
i’m thirteen and 5′ 7 1/2″!
waChaaa
March 19th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I did this last week and knocked out a lightbulb, glass everywhere. Great comics by the way.
May 12th, 2008 at 4:34 am
I’ve done that. :\
We don’t have a low ceiling though. I’m just tall.
Got this nasty cut on my finger. Glad the fan wasn’t on the highest setting.
May 28th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Well the good thing is he can always glue? them back .
June 4th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Who needs glue? Get the flaming hammer!
July 8th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
That’s happened to me before:P
July 11th, 2008 at 1:44 am
Poor biff. Ceiling fans have been a constant terror since puberty…last week.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:44 am
I actually was staying at a friend’s house last week and was putting on a shirt and got my knuckle caught in her ceiling fan (6′5″ btw), needless to say, there was much blood… and now that I know of Biff, I’m sure he’d have been proud. …Even more so when I did it to the same hand later that night.
November 1st, 2008 at 10:55 pm
yea, ive done that, not as much fun as you would think
December 23rd, 2008 at 1:38 am
I’ve done that. Luckily the fan was sort of old. Still hurts though.
February 12th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Y’know, you’d be surprised by how many times it happened to me.Well, except the hand amputation part. Still, I’m a 6′4 ft tall guy. It happens to me once a week, really.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:33 am
so I guess its not cooler on the inside of the ceiling fan either?
June 17th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
He kinda reminds me of Bongo Bongo from LoZ:OoT
June 30th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
..i did this in my room 6 days before i read this comic…and lets just say is hard to type with a swollen wrist
July 13th, 2009 at 5:19 am
Glad I could make ya smile AJ :3
Ok, my room is the worst ventillated one in the house (Seriously, who the hell designed it? The vent is literally 2 feet away from an opposing wall- the air has no room to move in! -_-; ) so I have to keep my ceiling fan whirring along like a little hummingbird. Well, I’m a tall man… x_x; and my ceiling is… I’m not sure, the living room ceiling is 8 feet, and the other ceilings are a little lower… Lets say my room’s ceiling (lets be generous) 6.5 feet? And I’m between 5.8 and 5.11 (we havent measured for a few years), with long arms… yeah… x_x I’ve thwacked my arms a few times…
January 11th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Flying hands!